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[Saliya Wimalaratne]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:48:56PM +0930, Janet Hawtin wrote:
> - A photo of me is not necessarily my property
> - An ultrasound of me is not my property
> - An xray of me is not my property
> The distributed technologies we use now are a part of our social discourse.
> Copyright is theft of our right to participate.

It's a funny thing. 

If we're stuck with the Copyright legislation (we probably are) and
we'd like to play a game of reducto ad absurdum (we love to do that here:)

I'd like to see an amendment to the Copyright Act saying 'A person is 
copyrighted to that person by default'

How many problems would this solve?

No need for a privacy act (can't disseminate information about me, copyright). 
No paparazzi (can't copy and distribute my copyright material).
No freedom of information about people (can't store my copyright material)
No Australia Card (copyright!)
No data mining (copyright!!)
No junk telephone/fax/email (unauthorised use of copyright material)

I'm sure there are others...

Regards,

Saliya